Pushkin holds performance before appealing against his arrest

The artist Ales Pushkin appealed an earlier verdict of the Smarhon
District Court at the Supreme Court of Belarus.

He asks the
court to find unlawful the verdict of the district court, according
to which he had been sentenced to ten days of arrest. Bear in mind
that Pushkin was sentenced to arrest for proceeding with portraits of
an activist of the anti-Soviet resistance movement, Rastsislau
Lapitski, in the center of Smarhon in order to draw the public
attention to the person of the unlawfully repressed activist and
commemorate him.

Ales Pushkin came to file the appeal to the
Supreme Court with a portrait of Lapitski as well.

“By this
action I want to sum up my factual struggle for the commemoration of
the repressed youngster. It would be good if there was set a monument
to him in Smarhon, some street was called after him or some art
gallery was opened to commemorate him. I want him to be remembered
and respected for his struggle for an independent Belarus,”
commented Mr. Pushkin.